cityeggs
Songster
I have 4 x 9 week-old chicks. I finally got some decent enough pictures that I'm hoping that you all might be able to help me confirm my suspicions! Here are my guesses:
1. Welsummer - cockerel??
2. Sage or olive egger hybrid - COCKEREL!
3. Lavender Ameraucana - pullet?
4. Crested Cream Legbar - PULLET (at least she better be! She was supposed to be a Bielefelder, but obviously she's not!)
If you need better pictures of any of them, just let me know and I'll do my best! I've tried to take photos a couple times already and they've all been terrible - these are by far the best shots I've managed!
#1 Welsummer has had the beginnings of bright red wattles for weeks now and is by far the most human-friendly, and more recently has been getting picked on by #2, the Big Man on Campus. As I hope you can see in the photos, the skin around his comb is reddish/pink, but the only ray of hope that this one might be a pullet is that the actual comb looks more yellow lately, (I'm reaching here, I know!) and body-size wise, he's almost indistinguishable from the CCL pullet (I can't tell them apart unless I see their faces/heads).
#2 I guessed early on, and the red wattle buds that showed up weeks ago and now his big red comb seem to confirm it. He's just been SUPER different than the others from the beginning. I know breed plays a big part in development, but he has been HUGE as of maybe a week old (his nickname was Turkey Baby for a while there) and was literally weeks behind the others in feathering - he got tail feathers probably a month (possibly more) after everyone else, and his tail is still very short - it looks like a little topknot. And, well, he acts like a cockerel and is already acting possessive of #3. As for what went into the hybrid, Lavender Ameraucana probably crossed with a brown egg layer with feathered legs? I was told he was a Sage Egger, but the well-feathered legs make me think he's got some Marans (I know they also breed Olive Eggers, so maybe he's an olive egger with the Marans?) though maybe his size and the feathered legs could mean some Cochin or Brahma instead if he was indeed bred to be a Sage egger? I don't think they breed either of those, but that doesn't mean they didn't bring some into the pool for this cross. Any thoughts on that? Mostly curiosity there. There are a few spots of buff leakage on his wings, but otherwise mostly lavender.
#3 She's best buds with BMOC, and she acts more like the CCL and not much like the other two, but the light pink comb started to freak me out - is that a Lavender thing? or an Ameraucana thing?
#4 - her comb is clearly yellow (no pink/red undertones, like #1), and she had no white spot on her head as a baby - she was all chipmunk stripes, so I'm not really worried about her, hence the only one photo. Do you see any reason to be concerned, though? It does look like she's got the beginnings of red wattles coming in, but that's within the last few days - I've been checking her and the Ameraucana regularly and haven't seen any until these photos, while 1 & 2 have had red wattle buds for weeks.
1. Welsummer - cockerel??
2. Sage or olive egger hybrid - COCKEREL!
3. Lavender Ameraucana - pullet?
4. Crested Cream Legbar - PULLET (at least she better be! She was supposed to be a Bielefelder, but obviously she's not!)
If you need better pictures of any of them, just let me know and I'll do my best! I've tried to take photos a couple times already and they've all been terrible - these are by far the best shots I've managed!
#1 Welsummer has had the beginnings of bright red wattles for weeks now and is by far the most human-friendly, and more recently has been getting picked on by #2, the Big Man on Campus. As I hope you can see in the photos, the skin around his comb is reddish/pink, but the only ray of hope that this one might be a pullet is that the actual comb looks more yellow lately, (I'm reaching here, I know!) and body-size wise, he's almost indistinguishable from the CCL pullet (I can't tell them apart unless I see their faces/heads).
#2 I guessed early on, and the red wattle buds that showed up weeks ago and now his big red comb seem to confirm it. He's just been SUPER different than the others from the beginning. I know breed plays a big part in development, but he has been HUGE as of maybe a week old (his nickname was Turkey Baby for a while there) and was literally weeks behind the others in feathering - he got tail feathers probably a month (possibly more) after everyone else, and his tail is still very short - it looks like a little topknot. And, well, he acts like a cockerel and is already acting possessive of #3. As for what went into the hybrid, Lavender Ameraucana probably crossed with a brown egg layer with feathered legs? I was told he was a Sage Egger, but the well-feathered legs make me think he's got some Marans (I know they also breed Olive Eggers, so maybe he's an olive egger with the Marans?) though maybe his size and the feathered legs could mean some Cochin or Brahma instead if he was indeed bred to be a Sage egger? I don't think they breed either of those, but that doesn't mean they didn't bring some into the pool for this cross. Any thoughts on that? Mostly curiosity there. There are a few spots of buff leakage on his wings, but otherwise mostly lavender.
#3 She's best buds with BMOC, and she acts more like the CCL and not much like the other two, but the light pink comb started to freak me out - is that a Lavender thing? or an Ameraucana thing?
#4 - her comb is clearly yellow (no pink/red undertones, like #1), and she had no white spot on her head as a baby - she was all chipmunk stripes, so I'm not really worried about her, hence the only one photo. Do you see any reason to be concerned, though? It does look like she's got the beginnings of red wattles coming in, but that's within the last few days - I've been checking her and the Ameraucana regularly and haven't seen any until these photos, while 1 & 2 have had red wattle buds for weeks.
